Job summary
- Main area
- Bed Management
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- 37.5 hours per week (Full time -37.5 hours per week)
- Job ref
- 321-CORP-7159521-B8a-PUB
- Employer
- Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- John Radcliffe Hospital
- Town
- Oxford
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 28/05/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 05/06/2025
Employer heading
Senior Clinical Coordinator
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
Many of our recruitment programmes use Value Based Interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significant difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families. For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit www.ouh.nhs.uk/about/vision-and-values
Job overview
- The post holder will support the Lead Nurse (Patient Pathway Co-ordinator Team) to work across professional boundaries to ensure appropriate national and local strategic and operational service objectives and standards are met.
- The Senior Clinical Coordinator is responsible for ensuring the efficient and effective day to day running of the clinical coordinator team whilst providing and maintaining high quality clinical care for patients. They will also be responsible for providing specialist advice, support and expertise to ward teams as required. This will include participation in the Trust Emergency Response Team to cardiac arrest and other emergencies.
- Provide senior support to manage the Trust’s bed capacity over a 24-hour period, ensuring all emergency and elective admission processes meet both related national targets, local and national patient pathways and quality standards.
- The Senior Clinical Coordinator will rotate across all four of the OUH sites and deputise in the absence of the Lead Nurse.
- The post will require engagement, negotiation and collaborative working with a range of professional groups and stakeholders, both within and outside the organisation. This will be achieved by demonstrating sound judgement in the absence of clear guidelines or precedent, seeking advice as necessary from peers or line manager when appropriate.
Main duties of the job
Managerial and professional leadership of the service and team
Oversight of Clinical Care Standards
Responsibility for Business planning , Financial Management and Human Resource Management
The operational team consist of 40 staff working a cross all 4 sites of the organisation providing Operational Management cover 24/7 . The responsibilities of the team cover both site and bed management.
The team works closely with key individuals across the Trust from ward staff and Matrons through to the Duty Executive and externally with key healthcare partners across Oxfordshire , the neighbouring counties and UK.
The role is everchanging and diverse , No two days are the same and there are always learning opportunities.
We are looking for individuals who have the ability to problem solve, decision make , negotiate and are able to think laterally in a fast paced environment with multiple challenges.
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. For more information on OUH please view OUH At a Glance by OUHospitals - Issuu
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.
We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Be responsible for the admission of emergency patients through the ED, SEU, Clinics and other identified admitting areas, to ensure appropriate placement of patients according to their clinical need and safety.
- Monitor the trigger factors associated with, and when necessary implement the Trust’s Bed Escalation Strategy in order to minimise bed crisis through effective planning. To co-ordinate the Trust’s response to patients who are likely to exceed the national ED standards as set out in the NHS plan.
- To monitor and facilitate actions to ensure national and local developments for Government Targets are met, including 4 hour standard, single sex accommodation, 18 and 52 week pathways.
- Advise the operational team on admission, discharge and patient flow issues. In the event of limited capacity, negotiate the opening of closed beds for patient placement ensuring patient safety remains a priority at all times.
- To maintain real time accurate bed state, monitoring actual and potential occupancy at all times.
- Contribute to the required daily collection of data and analyse information on closed/vacant beds, patient admission/discharge, emergency attendance, delayed transfer of care patients and key trust performance targets.
- In conjunction with clinical staff, co-ordinate the elective admission process out of hours, reconciling the demand for optimal activity and bed occupancy and meeting of the Trust targets with the need to provide sufficient capacity for emergency admissions. Be responsible for ensuring that quality care is maintained and that the Trust is able to provide a robust response to emerging issues.
- Communicate with other Trusts regarding Bed Status and Alert Status and proactively monitor and assist wards in the repatriation of patients back to their accepting hospitals.
- Manage and co-ordinate any critical incident which occurs within the Trust’s four sites in line with the Major Incident Policy.
- Participate in and co-ordinate the Trust’s emergency response teams to Fire, Security Alerts, Cardiac Arrest and other clinical emergencies, and to be responsible for the co-ordination of first line management of major and serious untoward incidents as required.
- Provide accurate information to external organisations such as Police and Ambulance Service and liaise with the media office team.
- Allocate the pool bank nurses and redeploy nurses within the Trust to align resources to workload to agreed Safe Staffing numbers for each ward/department.
- Be responsible for ensuring the Duty Manager/Duty Executive is briefed of untoward Incidents and situations.
Person specification
Ability to demenstarte essential requirements through application and interview
Essential criteria
- Suitable experience and education
Desirable criteria
- Able to demonstrate skills required
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Louise Johnson
- Job title
- Deputy Director of Urgent and Emergency Care
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
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